Mike Haubrich asked on Facebook whether anyone was voting for Mitt Romney because they liked Mitt Romney. Voting is a bit ambiguous. It delivers a decision but abstracts away the associations, losing links to causes. This poll is aimed to help fill in some of the gaps.

The following choices cover some of the common reasons to vote as well as what a vote will be. Please choose exactly one of the checkboxes highlighted in green, and whatever other checkboxes apply to your voting plans. So if, for instance, you feel that Mitt Romney is personally the right candidate for the job, you would check both the "Want Mitt Romney" and "Will Vote for Mitt Romney" checkboxes at a minimum. The program accepts exactly one vote per IP address. A second entry from a previously-polled IP address overwrites the old values with the new values. Obviously, this means that the IP address is associated with a data entry. If you feel this is too personally identifying, please don't use this poll.

Pick One of These Choices

Will vote for Mitt Romney
You are planning to vote for Mitt Romney. This says nothing about personal endorsement of the candidate.
Will vote third-party
You are planning to vote for a third party candidate.
Will vote for a write-in candidate
You are planning to vote for a write-in candidate.
Will vote for Barack Obama
You are planning to vote for Barack Obama. This says nothing about personal endorsement of the candidate.

Check as Many of These Choices as are Applicable

Want to vote for Mitt Romney
You are planning to vote for Mitt Romney because you believe the candidate is the right person to be President.
Will vote for the GOP candidate
You would vote for whoever the GOP nominates.
Want to vote for anyone who is not Barack Obama
You are planning to vote for somebody, anybody else because you believe Barack Obama is the wrong person to be President.
Want to vote for anyone who is not Mitt Romney
You are planning to vote for somebody, anybody else because you believe Mitt Romney is the wrong person to be President.
Will vote for the Democratic candidate
You would vote for whoever the Democratic Party puts up.
Want to vote for Barack Obama
You are planning to vote for Barack Obama because you believe the candidate is the right person to be President.

Poll Results

These graphs are updated every quarter hour. Your polling results will not be seen in the graph until the next update.

The raw numbers are given here:

Vote proportions in the "not" votes. People who indicated that a motivation was voting for someone other than one of the major party candidates and who indicated a vote for one of the three other choices in the poll are tallied here. The proportion is done as the number of associated votes for a class of candidate divided by the sum over the three possible other candidates times 100 to get a percentage.

With very few votes for Romney recorded, there was a difference in the distribution of votes of those voting for not-Obama versus not-Romney. Fewer of the not-Obama voters recorded a vote for the major party opponent than in the not-Romney case. As more votes are recorded, the distributions are getting more similar.

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